Dagdha Tithi: The Weekday Table and 2026-2027 Dates

A dagdha (“burnt”) tithi is not a bad tithi on its own. It is a pairing: one tithi meeting one weekday, seven pairs in all, and the almanacs that print the table call the meeting Dagdha Yoga. Between 1 November 2026 and 30 December 2027 those pairs touch 52 weekdays. The rest of 2026 has only two, on Wednesday 11 November and Sunday 20 December, and in both the tithi begins in the afternoon or evening, so a calendar that reads the tithi at sunrise marks no dagdha day before Thursday 14 January 2027.

The Seven Pairs

The tithi is counted within its paksha, so each pair occurs in the bright and the dark fortnight alike: a Shukla Dwadashi and a Krishna Dwadashi are both dagdha on a Sunday. Purnima and Amavasya appear nowhere in the table. The weekday is the vaar, which runs from one sunrise to the next, not the civil day that turns at midnight.

The group column is a reminder that this is a separate test from the five tithi groups. Only Saturday’s Navami is a Rikta tithi; the other six pairs take tithis from the Nanda, Bhadra, Jaya and Purna groups, which a filter reading the tithi alone would not stop. That is why the table exists. Ekadashi, Panchami and Tritiya are on the favoured-tithi list the site’s muhurat pages apply, and those pages do not run the weekday test, so anyone who follows the almanac custom should check a chosen date’s weekday against this table as well.

Why Four of Them Arrive in One Week

A tithi lasts a little less than a day on average, so for a stretch of a week or so the tithi number and the weekday climb together, one step a day. Subtract each weekday’s place in the week (Sunday 0, Monday 1 and so on) from its dagdha tithi and take the remainder after dividing by seven: Monday, Tuesday, Friday and Saturday all leave 3. Those four pairs lie on one line, and whenever a paksha’s Panchami falls on a Tuesday, the Ashtami, Navami and Ekadashi of the same paksha tend to land on the Friday, Saturday and Monday that follow. The other three pairs each sit on a line of their own and turn up singly.

In the table below that happens five times, in the weeks beginning 12 January 2027, 26 January 2027, 25 May 2027, 8 June 2027 and 19 October 2027. A week like that holds four of the year’s dagdha windows inside seven days, which matters more to someone choosing a date than the yearly total does.

Dagdha Yoga Dates, November 2026 to December 2027

Sunrise Reading or Any Part of the Day

Almanacs do not agree on whether the yoga belongs to the whole vaar or only to the hours the two overlap. A printed calendar usually gives one tithi per day, the one current at sunrise, and by that reading 21 of the 52 rows are dagdha days. The other reading treats the yoga as a window, and then every row counts, but only from the time in the third column. The two can be far apart. No tithi in the range fills a whole vaar, and two windows last under an hour; the shortest, on Friday 8 October 2027, is the eleven minutes of Shukla Ashtami left after sunrise, while the longest, 23 h 24 min on Saturday 30 January 2027, runs from sunrise to 06:34 the next morning, 36 minutes short of the following sunrise. A window that opens at 15:00 is a dagdha window by the second reading and not a dagdha day by the first. The page prints both and picks neither.

Tithi instants come from the JPL DE421 ephemeris with the Lahiri ayanamsa, in IST to the minute, and are the same everywhere in India. The vaar edges are New Delhi’s sunrises, so a row that starts at sunrise or runs to the next one moves by some minutes in another city, and a tithi that begins within minutes of sunrise can switch a row between the two readings. The panchang calculator gives your own city’s sunrise and tithi for any date.

What the Custom Avoids, and What It Leaves Alone

In muhurta practice a dagdha pairing is a reason to pass over that vaar when choosing a muhurat for beginning something: a marriage, a griha pravesh, a journey, a new venture. That is the only use the tables put it to. It does not move a festival, which is fixed by its tithi whatever the weekday, so an Ekadashi fast that falls on a Monday is kept on that Monday. It says nothing about a person born at that time, and this page makes no claim that a day in the table goes worse than any other; it reports a rule and where the rule falls.

Some almanacs also print a second “dagdha” list, keyed to the sign the Sun is in rather than to the weekday. It is a different rule with a different table, and it is not computed here.

Related Pages

The pairings that almanacs treat as favourable rather than burnt are Sarvartha Siddhi, Amrit Siddhi and the weekday-tithi-nakshatra triple of Dwipushkar and Tripushkar. How the five limbs of a day are read together is on the panchang guide. The daily panchang shows the tithi and weekday together for each date. In Hindi: दग्ध तिथि: वार-तिथि की सात जोड़ियाँ और 2026-2027 की तारीखें.